Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also the party of international Protestantism , believing that England should open its arms to foreign protestants who had fled their own country on account of their religion , and were prepared to allow them not only complete freedom of worship but also the advantages of naturalisation . |
| 2 | The first poets played their part in the making of bread : today 's writers grow a different kind of food but still provide a nourishment neither they nor their readers can do without . |
| 3 | Line a-f is the case of the failure of an approach with a high level of creativity but too low a level of logical rigour . |
| 4 | Myklebust ( 1964 ) claimed there was an ‘ organismic shift ’ , at least producing a different experience of events but probably producing different thought . |
| 5 | But this friction was beneficial for the students , as they not only learnt a rigorous method of representation but also were exposed to more liberal attitudes . |
| 6 | Disillusionment is what Coranka Matic focusses on — the urban features , still preserved from the direct line of fire but silently undermined and distorted by all other means . |
| 7 | Trusts arise not only by a direct expression of intention but also by an inference or implication which may or may not correspond to any actual intention . |
| 8 | From the viewpoint of their investors , the value added offered by venture capitalists not only derives from the careful structuring of transactions but also from extreme selectivity in their choice of investments . |
| 9 | The short-lived benefits from the 1967 devaluation and the persistence of poor economic performance after the floating of sterling in 1972 , demonstrate not just the limited effect of devaluation but rather suggest that exchange rate difficulties are symptomatic of more fundamental problems [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 10 | The areas designated in the EEC Council Directive 75/268 extend to 34.28 million hectares ( m ha ) and are of significance in all countries of the EEC Nine not only because of the overall proportion of land but also because of their importance in animal production ( Table 1 ) . |
| 11 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 12 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , legal title rarely evidences an absolute right of ownership but only indicates an entitlement better than that of the next person . |
| 14 | Conversely , individual site studies do not reveal the overall magnitude of erosion but nevertheless illustrate some of the trends which occur when the forest cover is removed . |
| 15 | Interestingly , 39 respondents said that their companies gave out emergency treatment kits to protect against non-sexual transmission of HIV but only six said that their companies gave out condoms to protect against sexual transmission . |
| 16 | You 're thinking more than doing and er wit you know sarcasm they say is the lowest form of wit but actually sarcasm probably is wit . |
| 17 | Or , to quote Ramsey : " … there is really no separate problem of truth but merely a linguistic muddle . " |
| 18 | This must be an ideal situation for you actually cos we 're being , we 're sitting here being recorded and being watched so we 're used to that sort of thing but not particularly conscious of it |
| 19 | It 's that sort of dark but not heavy , yeah man , that 's really groovy . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't remember the last time I jumped that sort of height but today 's performance does n't concern me . |
| 21 | Robert did n't want to talk to the engineering master , but neither did he want to go out after Aziz the janitor , who , in their first conversation in the Frog and Ferret , had made pretty clear not only his low opinion of infidels but also his readiness to use cutlery on other human beings with whom he disagreed . |
| 22 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |
| 23 | By starting from the premise that the historical moment had arrived to sweep away not only the nihilistic , angst-ridden literature of modernism but also the crass simplicity of Stalinist socialist realism , Lukacs envisaged the possibility of a beneficial mutual interaction between bourgeois critical realism and a rejuvenated socialist realism . |
| 24 | numbers dictate these sort of things but anyway now I 'll be absolutely crushed hour now , five o'clock on a Friday . |
| 25 | And a little untidy period of play but here 's Lewis to Ormanroyd Speedy sets it up for Greyson and in it goes again towards Agnew the captain and did that cross the line yes it 's a corner . |
| 26 | They were heading for the besieged Bosnian town of Travnik but never reached it . |
| 27 | Eventually , the song becomes a real-time simulation of a locked groove , an out-of-control roller-coaster of dread but also of resilience : ‘ And the Mercy Seat is waiting/And I think my head is burning/And in a way I 'm yearning/To be done with all this measuring of proof/An eye for an eye/And a tooth for a tooth/And anyway I told the truth/And I 'm not afraid to die . ’ |
| 28 | The southernmost part of Korea was a mere 90 miles ( 145 km ) from Japan ; Korea resembled Japan in having a large number of islands but only one is politically significant — Cheju-do , to the south-west of the peninsula . |
| 29 | The number of destitute people with serious mental disorder now living more or less permanently in this way is reckoned to be 60–90,000 , but no one knows for sure : a large number of people but still a quite small proportion of the total number of people in our society in need of a home . |
| 30 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |